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|  | | | | Listen to Jim White reveal his own celluloid highs and lows in a slideshow | | | | Jim White attended Manchester Grammar School and read English at the University of Bristol, though maintains most of his education came on the terraces at Old Trafford.
A founding member of staff at the Independent in 1986, he moved across to the Guardian ten years later, where his contributions have won the sports columnist of the year. A regular on Saturday Review and Front Row, he can also be frequently heard on Radio 5, where he was awarded a Sony Gold award for a documentary about the demise of Wembley Stadium.
Cinema has been a lifelong passion since his dad took him to see Lawrence of Arabia when he was a child and he returned twice a day every day for the next week to see the film over and again. After a youth largely spent oscillating between the football pitch and the local flea pit (his first date was at, bizarrely, 101 Dalmatians: it was all that was on) these days his favourite movies depend on his mood. The Godfather Part Two if in need of an epic, High Society for an uplift of the soul, This Is Spinal Tap when jokes are required. Though his children have shown him that there is not a lot wrong with Toy Story.
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|  | | Cuba Gooding Jr in The Fighting Temptations
Cuba Gooding Jr first came to prominence in John Singleton's Boyz N the Hood and went on to pick up the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as the American footballer Rod Tidwell in Jerry Maguire. He joins Back Row to talk about his latest role where in order to fulfil the requirements of his aunt's inheritance his character must take on a backwoods gospel choir and lead them to victory in a singing competition.
Extreme Locations
Kevin Macdonald's Touching the Void retells the story of Joe Simpson's extraordinary battle for survival in the Peruvian Andes when disaster struck on a climbing expedition. Back Row talks to the film's producer John Smithson and his mountaineering consultant Brian Hall about how they overcame the problems of filming at high altitude.
Premiere Competition
Back Row gave away the chance to walk down the red carpet with the stars of Anthony Minghella's Cold Mountain.
Timeline
British actors Anna Friel and Gerard Butler join Back Row to talk about their roles in new Hollywood blockbuster Timeline. Based on a novel by Michael Crichton it tells of a group of archaeology students who become trapped in the past.
Art House Cinema
We had a huge response to our discussion on the availability of art house and foreign language films to rent on DVD and video. For further details on which websites provide the best service for the art house film lover see the BFI's guide to online video rental
In the multi-plex
Thirteen
In the art house
Trilogy 3
On DVD and video
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
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RELATED LINKS
This week at BBCi films: Thirteen
BFI Guide to Online Video Rental
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